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Connected features the personal stories of six New Yorkers woven together into one of the most intimate series ever. This groundbreaking show changes the nature of storytelling by giving each character a camera to document their lives. The result is a unique format revealing as different as everyone appears to be, we are all universally Connected.

Wake up to your world in 2 minutes.

Jews and Money. Asian Drivers. Polish IQ. CPT… that's racist! But where do these stereotypes come from? Comedian Mike Epps explores the backstories of this humor and how history and fact often distorts into a snide – but sometimes funny – shorthand.

"INSPIRED" features celebrities, visionaries and some of the biggest newsmakers of our generation, recounting the stories behind their biggest, life-changing moments of inspiration.

In a compelling series of verite encounters, Win Win provides unique access into the minds and lives of the world’s most-celebrated entrepreneurs and athletes.

Explore what it means to be human as we rush head first into the future through the eyes, creativity, and mind of Tiffany Shlain, acclaimed filmmaker and speaker, founder of The Webby Awards, mother, constant pusher of boundaries and one of Newsweek’s “women shaping the 21st Century.”

Nicole Richie brings her unfiltered sense of humor and unique perspective to life in a new series based on her irreverent twitter feed. The show follows the outspoken celebrity as she shares her perspective on style, parenting, relationships and her journey to adulthood.

Comedy is hard, but teaching comedy to children is hilariously difficult. Kevin Nealon is giving the challenge to some world-famous comedians. As these young minds meet with comedy’s best, get ready to learn some valuable comedy lessons, and to laugh!

James Franco loves movies. He loves watching them, acting in them, directing them, and even writing them. And now, he’s going to take some of his favorite movie scenes from the most famous films of all time, and re-imagine them in ways that only James can.

The story of punk rock singer Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! who came out as a woman in 2012, and other members of the trans community whose experiences are woefully underrepresented and misunderstood in the media.

Executive produced by Zoe Saldana (who will be the subject of one episode), a celebrity travels back to their hometown to pay tribute to the one person from their past (before they were famous) who helped change their life by giving them an over-the-top, heart-felt surprise.

Enter the graceful but competitive world of ballet through the eyes of executive producer, Sarah Jessica Parker. This behind-the-scenes docudrama reveals what it takes to perform on the ultimate stage, the New York City Ballet. Catch NYCB on stage at Lincoln Center.

Park Bench is a new kind of "talking show" straight from the mind of born and bred New Yorker and host, Steve Buscemi.

Hi! My name is Christopher Byer, I am at Christopher Salon and Massage. Today I am going to show you how to highlight your hair, I am going to show you the differences between the professional highlighting and the type of highlighting you will get from the box and after that I am going to show you the preparation and how to set your table. You are going to need some tin foil and you will need white tooth comb, a foiling comb, you will need some clippies, a bowl and a brush and then we are going to need our developer depending on how light you want the hair to be, you can have 10, 20, 30 or 40 volume developer and then your color that you are going to use and we will go into that when show you how to mix the color, how to choose the proper color to do your highlighting.

And next I am going to show you how to do the parting of the hair; the application of the color, we are going to talk about the different safety issues, keeping the product off of the scalp, the timing, how to turf the foils to make sure you retrieve the proper color, proper method of removing the foils, I am going to show you how to shampoo and rinse the product properly and then after that we will learn some tips on how to take care of your hair after you have had your highlights.

Okay before we get started, let me tell you a little bit about myself. My name is Christopher Byer, I have been a hair stylist for the last 22 year. I graduated from Greenwood Academy to Aveda Concept School. The last six years I have owned my own salon and I am an Educator for Xafax (ph). My Salon specializes in coloring and color corrections. So now we are going to introduce to Michelle, my model and we will get started.